# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0222 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0222?run=74 # Title: Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 53) # Folio 64, page id 797370323:0222 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=797370323&page=222 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/797370323/jpgs/default/00000222.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 53 lines, status machine # Lines: 53 recognised, mean confidence 0.82 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. DmioTorhica Drinciples in all chetime pastbetore that, since vehave ans Records; and trro or threc hundred Tears more, soins on ac the rate ol chose laCt Past, may carry em to a heiohe Wrhich ire no cannoc imaginc. Nom it is altogether impossible the Improvements already made Boud Bc lost, secing they contain thines (o ablolutelr necellarr to cheAccommodation oF Mankind; cherrill as Coon Forset che ule ot FToules and Cloaths, 25 the Advantases to be reap d From thiis Science; Wheretore had theWorid Kter- nally been, this Science had been broughe to its utmost Perfection long c’ex non. IE may be allexcd thacnundations, Delu res. Wars and Pestilencies mighe have de Proyed allthe former tmprovements, and ehen we Moud hare been lete to beoin a Her. AS For Deluces, it is impossible eies Moud have been Univertal, i. c. Natu rally and Mcchanically impossible; For the ouly Philosophical Acconne oF an 2mi versal Deluge hicherto astion d, 2iz. that OF Mr. Whistons, depends encirely upon che Principles oF Gravitation, arhrich hare been Cim ma LVa be nist unc 10 Ce deri Ar Mac pIt Aac 10 don urtic nYC Tinec OF du ther. Noat tHaE vet arei De